Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
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Rebecca Lucy Taylor
b. 1986
Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, 39, was in the duo Slow Club. After 10 years, she went solo as Self Esteem and received Mercury prize, NME and Brit nominations for her second album, 2021’s Prioritise Pleasure. This year, she won the Ivor Novello Visionary award and released a book and album, both called A Complicated Woman. In March, she stars in David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles at the Duke of York’s theatre, London. She lives in London with her partner.
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Having no way of earning money.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
Julie Hesmondhalgh – she’s the kindest, brightest, most truthful woman. She’s so talented, works hard, cares about the right things, puts her energy in the right places. I adore her.
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My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
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People who can’t wait to argue.
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Big, shy, angry.
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I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
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I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.
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Most of the people I dated between 23 and 33. It feels crazy to me that I ever thought that I could be anyone’s girlfriend before I figured out the things I’ve now figured out.
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At a pub in Rotherham. I was a really bad waitress and I ended up being demoted to chopping the potatoes and I even got fired from that.
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I am consistently disappointed in the music industry. Every time someone says that I’m underrated, that feels extremely disappointing because I’ve done my end of the bargain.
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I’d have gone solo sooner.
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On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
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My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.
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High self-esteem.
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I had some gynaecological issues that were very sudden, about 18 months ago, and felt that I might be dying. I wasn’t but it was quite serious.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
I’d like all my effort noticed.
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